When you don’t have a penny to your name, having a yard sale is like a Great Big Fun Day in Fun Land, (or something like that).

Yeah, I made out like a bandit. I mean, is it just me, or is it completely crazy that people will give you money for crap that you don’t want anymore?

The other wonderful thing about a yard sale is the people watching you get to do…and what crazy people! OK, I’m not being fair; they may not have actually been crazy, but they were pretty close to it.

We had a dozen VHS tapes laying out, flat, front side up, such that you could see all of their titles at a glance. One woman browsing them asked, “do you have The Nurse“? “Yes”, I replied, “we are hiding a VHS tape from you called The Nurse, along with several million other motion pictures that were released on VHS. We have them all, just tell us which ones you need and I’ll pull them from out of my…” Er, no, I didn’t say any of that to her.

Another person bought a dozen broken red bricks, leaving behind a dozen not broken white bricks, even though we told him he could take them all. This same man stopped and parked his truck right in the middle of the street! Hello?!

Another perk to yard sales, it turns out, is that it is an excellent opportunity for you and your neighbors to meet for the very first time. OK, so why, after 3 some years, have I never met these people before? I have no idea; chalk it up to life in a big city, but now we are all friends, and I am planning to have a delightful conversation with my new friends the next time I run into…

Um, er…what were their names again? DAMN!

Cheers

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